{"product_id":"tumble-home-a-novella-and-short-stories-9780684838878","title":"Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories","description":"Critically acclaimed master of the short story Amy Hempel's \u003ci\u003eTumble Home\u003c\/i\u003e is narrated by people with skewed visions of home. Not exactly crazy, they become obsessed and irrational as their inner logic leads them astray. In the title novella, a woman living in a psychiatric halfway house writes to a man she has met only once. Proceeding in brief vignettes that link and illuminate, she recounts her peculiar life with the other patients. The accretions of anecdote lead deeper and deeper into the psyche and history of the narrator, gradually revealing the reason for her urgent letter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHempel, Amy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Amy Hempel is the author of \u003ci\u003eSing to It, The Dog of the Marriage, Tumble Home, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Reasons to Live, \u003c\/i\u003eand the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eUnleashed. \u003c\/i\u003e Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, Tin House, The Harvard Review, The Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and have been widely anthologized, including \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Best Nonrequired Reading. \u003c\/i\u003eShe teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Bennington College, and at Stony Brook Southampton. She lives near New York City.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503644676370,"sku":"9780684838878","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_18be91ac-cdcb-4b55-9917-58cc3971c90d.jpg?v=1730794853","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tumble-home-a-novella-and-short-stories-9780684838878","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}